EXHIBITION LINE UP

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AT SAAG
December 7 to January 27, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, December 7 at 5 PM
Reception Sponsored by North & Company LLP

The Southern Alberta Art Gallery is excited to announce our upcoming exhibitions. Opening in conjunction with First Friday on December 7, Cyclorama showcases the work of Toronto based installation artist Lyla Rye. This exhibition offers a series of still images, single channel videos, and mixed media installations that look to the theatrical curtain as a device to conflate illusion and reality, dreaming and wakefulness, audience and participant.

Opening concurrently is Eleanor King's Stacks. The Halifax based artist finds inspiration in the everyday - those deceptively mundane, overlooked, and understated aspects of contemporary life that one might adapt, revitalize, assemble or dismantle, and in the process, reveal as dignified and often extraordinary.

Interested in Volunteering?
Installations are the perfect opportunity for a behind-the-scenes look at how exhibitions come together and we’re looking for energetic volunteers with some gallery or installation experience to help in mounting our upcoming exhibitions!

CALL FOR EQUIPMENT

The Southern Alberta Art Gallery is seeking items for a new installation by Halifax artist Eleanor King. We're currently accepting donations and loans of VHS tapes, vinyl LPs or 45s, any electronic equipment including (but not limited to) projectors, dvd or vhs players, tv monitors, stereo equipment, radios, speakers, computer towers, books, or anything else you may like to part with as long as it's black in colour. Eleanor is also looking for a few choice furniture pieces - either that are already black or can be painted - shelving, coffee table, and a 70s style stereo cabinet are items of particular interest to the artist.

Eleanor King's exhibition Stacks will open on Friday, December 7 at 5 PM and will remain on view until January 27, 2013.

HOLIDAY EVENTS IN THE SHOP AT SAAG

PLAID DAYS
November 23: 10 AM - 10 PM | November 24 : 10 AM - 5 PMPlaid Days will be a fun, enjoyable and relaxing alternative to Black Friday. Be sure to visit The Shop at SAAG, where various regular stock items will be on sale! Show up wearing plaid and receive a free general admission pass to use the next time you come to see an exhibition.
MODERNEGG PRESENTS: 5TH ANNUAL MADE SHOW + SALE
November 23: 6 - 10 PM | November 24: 10 AM - 5 PM
Join us at SAAG for MADE - an annual shopping event that gives you the opportunity to buy handmade from local, independent, artists, crafters, and designers.

POP-UP SHOPPING EVENTSNovember 30: 2 - 7 PM | Month of DecemberEDIT will be setting up shop at the SAAG on November 30 from 2 PM to 7 PM. Come in to shop and then stay for Holiday Happy Hour. For the month of December MADE vendors will host mini pop-up shopping events every Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM. Stop in every weekend to find something different and special.

HOLIDAY HAPPY HOUR
Presented by Milestone Mazda & Lethbridge Volkswagen
November 30: 5 - 7 PM
Enjoy your favorite Christmas tunes played by Jesse and the Dandelions while you sip cocktails, visit with friends, enjoy sales in The Shop at SAAG, and have your gifts wrapped for free! Interested in volunteering for Holiday Happy Hour? We are looking for bartenders and gift wrappers! Contact Danielle Tait for more information: 403-327-8770 x 22 or dtait@saag.ca.

CONGRATULATIONS RAPHAËLLE DE GROOT

Congratulations to Raphaëlle de Groot, who was announced the winner of the 2012 Sobey Art Award on Friday, November 16 at a gala event in Toronto. In 2009, de Groot's The Burden of Objects occupied SAAG's temporary storefront gallery, and we look forward to her return September 2014!

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